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KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta Released With Aurorae & KWin-X11

Phoronix - Thu, 05/15/2025 - 23:37
The beta release of the KDE Plasma 6.4 beta desktop is now available for testing ahead of its official release in June...

CachyOS, Clear Linux & Debian 13 Deliver The Best Performance On Framework Laptop 13 With AMD Strix Point

Phoronix - Thu, 05/15/2025 - 19:04
For those that may be upgrading to the new Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" SoCs and curious about hitting the best possible Linux performance, this article is for you. Here is a look at the performance of the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 across CachyOS, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora Workstation 42, Manjaro Linux 25.0, openSUSE Tumbleweed, and Ubuntu 25.04.

Linux Patches Updated For Dropping Support For Very Old x86 CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 05/15/2025 - 18:44
Posted last month were Linux patches for removing support for very old i486 and early i586 CPUs. While not yet mainlined to the Linux kernel contrary to some of the reporting elsewhere, this work for removing TSC-less and CX8-less x86 CPUs remains ongoing and out today is the second iteration of the patches...

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